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Do We Really Equip Our
Students with Inquiry Skills?
Małgorzata Krzeczkowska and Iwona Maciejowska
INTRODUCTION
Much discussion is being held on whether the objective of higher education is to prepare gradu-
ates for carrying out their professions or for living in the contemporary society, or rather, it is a
pursuit ofthe Truth within the community of masters and students, and so forth (Baumann 2010).
Regardless of the model selected, one of the desired outcomes of each level of education is to
develop higher-order cognitive skills (HOCSs). Many publications have been devoted to denitions,
the change in the paradigm (Zoller and Scholz 20 ...